The purpose of the project is to design, create and test prototypes for a new, Fitzwilliam-centric subscription service using the technology created by Museum In a Box. MIaB is an edtech company pioneering the use of ‘Brain Boxes’: a small plywood box, about the size of a Roberts radio, containing speakers, a Raspberry Pi, and […]
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Ahead of giving the Clark Lectures 2019, Professor Andrew Cole (Princeton) talks to Trinity Fellows, Dr Ross Wilson and Dr Phil Knox
Professor Andrew Cole, Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton, will give the Clark Lectures 2019 at Trinity. Here he is in conversation with Trinity Fellows, Dr Ross Wilson and Dr Phil Knox: https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/news/unmodernism-the-clark-lectures-2019/ UNMODERNISM – THE CLARK LECTURES 2019 BY PROFESSOR ANDREW COLE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 1.Hegel in the Cathedral (28 January, lecture) […]
Continue ReadingCall for Papers: ‘War and Peace in the Age of Sterne’, Utrecht, 31 October-2 November 2019
The International Laurence Sterne Foundation has now opened its Call for Papers for its third conference, on the topic of ‘War and Peace in the Age of Sterne’, to be held in Utrecht 31st October-2nd November 2019. Further details can be found on the conference website: https://sternelegacies.com/utrecht-2019/
Continue Reading‘W. S. Graham 1918-2018: A Centenary Symposium’, Faculty of English, GR06/07, Friday 11 January 2019
Ever wondered whether W. S. Graham liked to draw? Or what he made of flying? Or what kinds of spaces – real and imagined – are opened up by his tricky poetry? Come along on Friday to hear a group of people asking and answering these questions – and some others – as we celebrate […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita publishes article about feminist forums and magazines (Fall 2018)
Dr Sophie Seita has published ‘The Politics of the Forum in Feminist Avant-Garde Magazines After 1980‘ in the Journal of Modern Literature, 42.1 (Fall 2018), pp. 163-182. Abstract Dissatisfied with the exclusion of women from preceding avant-gardes, the overlapping communities that formed around the feminist avant-garde magazines Chain, Raddle Moon, HOW(ever), and HOW2 attempted to forge […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate publishes an article about Vietnamese-American refugee writers Viet Nguyen and Thuy Le: ‘Living Afterwards’, November 2018
Dr Trudi Tate has published an article about Vietnamese-American refugee writers Viet Nguyen and Thuy Le: ‘Living Afterwards’, Book 2.0, 8:1-2 (2018).
Continue ReadingDylan Carver, Eliza Haughton-Shaw, Alexander Hobday and Ephraim Levinson speak at the British Society for 18th Century Studies Annual Conference, in a panel showcasing current PhD work in the Faculty, January 2019
Dylan Carver, Eliza Haughton-Shaw, Alexander Hobday and Ephraim Levinson are all speaking at the British Society for 18th Century Studies Annual Conference in Oxford, January 4-6, in a special panel showcasing current PhD work in the Faculty. The title of the panel is ‘Cultural Transformation in Later Eighteenth-Century Britain: New Directions from the University of […]
Continue ReadingConference registration open – A Good Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying Well, 10-11 January 2019
Conference registration open A Good Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying Well 10 January 2019 – 11 January 2019 Conference convenors: Dr Laura Davies and Dr Emma Salgard Cunha http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27897 Dying well is an increasingly urgent and ubiquitous topic within discussions of ageing, palliative care, euthanasia, bereavement, grief, and mental health. This conference brings together researchers […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate publishes new book ‘A Short History of the Crimean War’, November 2018
Dr Trudi Tate has published a new book, A Short History of the Crimean War (I. B. Tauris, 2018). https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-Short-History-of-the-Crimean-War-by-Trudi-Tate/9781848858619
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